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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21
THE AWFUL DRUM.

Some Points in the Life of the EIan Who Is
Helping the Republicans.
New York Graphic.
States army. who has been brought into such
prominence by his connection with the confed-
crate flag business, is stocky. determined
looking man of about sixty years of age. He is
of medium height and quite soldierly looking
that is, he looks like well-trained and disci-
plined soldier of the ranks ora sturdy non-com-
Inissoned officer. He is not all distineue in
appearance. His appearance does not belle his
history, for he has risen from the ranks. Away
vate soldier and has his way up. 1t is said
that he is by birth an Engishmar. He has
frequently of past years acted Secretary of
War, and even when not acting in that capacity
it is the general impression about Washington
that he runs the War Department In manner
and speech he is rugged and brusque even to the
Joint OF discourtssy at times to persons who have
business with the department., but he is cener
ally believed to be an honest. straiehtfor ward.
assumed that he is rigid disciplinarian. Ten
minutes spent in his Office any day would dem
onstrate this. and he is of that class of Off
Gals who think that newspapers unneces-
sary evils and should be shut out from all OPP
portunity of learning what is going on in mill
tary circles. He has been known at a time when
the people were eagerly awaiting information of
the fate of q gallant party of soldiers who had
entered the mountain Businesses in pursuit OF
band of Indians, and who it was feared had
been massacred, TO retire within his shell and
surlily refuse to give information that had come
direct to the department to the press for twelve
or eighteen hours after he had received It. He
thought it matter which the press had no right
to busy itself with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

ALL hope of getting natural gas in Cleve-
land, o., is practically abandoned. At a
meeting of the Board of Industry resolution
was adopted reciting the efforts of public and
private enterprise in the matter declaring the
belief that natural gas cannot be found near
those who have subscribed to the fund for
boring for gas to allow the money already
raised SIT, 900, to be used in experimenting
in the manufacture of artificial gas from
petroleum or coal L looks more and more
as if Indianapolis will get gas such terms
as to give it advantage over all other
Western cities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

THE Baltimore Sum- of Southern proclivi-
ties, thinks the rebel-fag incident lis most
unfortunate one, for it seems to contradict
the ELUSIVE utterance of post-prandial orators
at reunions of ex-Union and ex-confederate
veterans, and to indicate the survival at the
North in marked degree of the ancient spirit
of intolerance which we had been encouraged
to believe was rapidly dying out all over the
country" We do not see it so. The uni
versal protest of the old soldiers and loyal
citizens against the return of the flags does
not argue spirit of intolerance, but spirit
of manhood and patriotism. If they were
intolerant of anything it was of the cringing,
trucking spirit that led the President and his
advisers to get down on their knees unbidden
before the late enemies of the government
and voluntarily propose to do that which no.
body asking for and the doing of which
involved surrender of manhood.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

JUDGE ROBINSON, who has been spoken of
in connection with the prosecution of the
tally-sheet conspiracy cases, is becoming
quite a card writer, having published two or
three within as many days. In his last card
the Judge denies that he ever volunteered his
services or offered them to the Committee of
One Hundred The Judge should put on his
thinking cap and call up his memory. The
Journal has the statement that the Judge did
make that very offer in the presence and hear
ing of two or more persons in gentleman s
office on Market street, north side.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

he recovered the undertaken appealed to him to
pay the BILL on the ground that having been
built to measure. the coffin would not fit any
body else. Mr.. Fulton declared that If he must
pay the bill he would keep the coffin, have
hinges put to the lid, and use it wardrobe
for his dress suit. This idea was plagiariZed and
adapted to the French by Sarah Bernhardt. who
used a coffin as bedstead. Again modified by
Mr. Fulton satire upon theologians, the
receptacle intended for the body is now occupied
by the spirits.
MRS. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT is at pres
ent living in London with her two sons. She
will remain there indefinitely. making studies
for a novel It is said that Mrs. Burnett is
in receipt of letter from real Lord Fauntle-
roy. in which the writer expresses great admit
ration for the famous story In which his name is
used Mrs. Burnetts present visit to England
IS the third she has made since she left the land
OF her birth when fourteen years OF age.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL DRUM is a man of me-
dunn height, about sixty years of age, and not
at all distinguished in appearance He is, it is
said, an Englishman by birth. He entered the
army away back in the hfties He is q strict
disciplinarian. hrusque in speech and manner,
and Is considered thoroughly honest, though ex-
teremeiy narrow-mnded. He believes that the
newspapers are a nuisance belief which seems
to be held by a number of prominent officials at
Washington
JAY GoULD's health has not improved. He is
still obliged to let business alone. His intimates
insist that he is no longer troubled with insom-
mia, and there is earnest effort to give cur
rency to the idea that he is no longer a sick
man. But the fact rem aims that he is far from
being well. His office desk is piled up with bus
mess that he is neglecting for the simple reason
that he does not feel equal to the task of dis
patching it.. His life may not be in danger, but
he is a sick man for all that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21
COMMENT AND OPINION.

JOHN SHERMAN can never be President with
Iowa against him. and Iowa is against any man
who has a brother who speaks well of Grover
Cleveland. Chicago Herald.
IT must be apparent to Secretary Endicott
and General Drum by this time, if 1t never oc-
Cured to them before. that just at this particu-
lar stage in the political game, the s'rebel flags"
are a dangerous thing to monkey with.-Wash-
ington Critic.
THE explanations and apologies offered by the
Presidents friends in the matter of those con-
federate flags only serve to emphasize the fact
that he considered it pleasant duty" to re-
store trophies of Union victories to the South
ern States. and that he changed his mind be-
cause the loyal people of the country entered a
protest which he did not dare to disregard.
Louis Globe Democrat
QUEEN VICTORIA has lived long, and she has
borne herself in such way as to command con-
siderable respect from her subjects who are not
living in Ireland. Let those VINO admire her ex-
press their admiration in their own way, and let
us hope that the time is not far distant when the
longest term of Office celebrated in England will
be that of four-year President chosen by the
people---New York World.
THE temperance movement has grown slowly
until quite recently, but it is becoming wave
more than a stream of tendency to-day, and it is
flashing here and there with the mysterious
celebrity which marked the operation of the
'sbazaar telegraph" in India during the nutiny.
At such times community sensblity rises to
strange heights and popular determination
sumes a formidable aspect-New York Trib-
IT is rather curious that those in Office should
have SO soon forgotten that in 1882 two regi-
mental associations. formed from the 108th Ohio
regiment and the Fifty-first Pennsylvania. APP
piled to the Secretary of War for the return of
their reeimental flags captured by the confed-
crates, recaptured by the Union troops and in
possession of the War Department. and were
informed that these flags were the property of
the government and could only be disposed of
by Congress. Each of the associations applied
to Congress, and by acts approved Aug 3, 1882,
the flags were given to the assocations.-Na-
tional Republican.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

HERE is something that reads like old
times. A Columbia, S. c., special of the
18th says that rumors of an expected out
break Of negroes, in Laurens county had
reached there that morning Later in the
day Governor Richardson received COM
munication, signed by a number of white
men in Laurens, to the following blood
curding effect:
tThe negroes, under the Hoover influence
were organized in the county, and had formed
a number of clubs. Meetings were held at
night, in churches, from II to 2 o'clock and
the buildings were surrounded by armed
pickets. Very incendiary speeches were made.
1t was proposed that at certain time a gen.
eral uprising should take place in the night;
the white men and old women should be
killed, while the white girls would be taken as
wives and the children made to work. It is
proposed to burn the whites out and massacre
them The negroes were all well armed, the
arms being furnished by the clubs, and where
they came from is unknown. The members
of the club are bound by an oath to secrecy,
and to divulge anything is punishable by
death"
In view of the situation the whites had
organized a company of cavalry, and asked
for rifles and ammunition. The Governor sent
two staff officers to investigate matters, and
was preparing to mobilize the militia. if nec-
essary. All this sounds very familiar-quite
like before the-war times. If there were an
election pending, it could be easily under
Stood but we believe there is no political
campaign on at present in South Carolina.
Perhaps the negroes have been organizing
Republican clubs. If SO, it ought to be
stopped
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

DIsTRIcT-ATToRNEY SELLERS thought to
be very smart and make point against the
Committee of One Hundred by declining to
accept the services of Messrs Fishback and
Robinson to assist in the prosecution of the
tally-sheet forgery conspirators because Mr..
Henderson, member of the committee, had
become bondsman for the appearance of one
of the men indicted by the grand jury. But
Mr. Sellers, in letter tc Mr.. Bowen, of the
Committee of One Hundred, says that he will
consent to the employment of Col. A. w.
Hendricks, to assist him in the prosecutions.
While Colonel Hendricks is a good lawyer,
and excellent gentleman, yet Colonel
Hendricks was the attorney of Mr.. Per-
kins, one of the indicted parties, in
the habeas corpus proceedings in the United
States Court, following the proceedings before
Commissioner Van Buren,, and in which the
interests of some of the other defendants were
atleastindirectly involved, and it is understood
that the same gentleman is also of counsel for
Mr.. Perkins, since the return of the indct-
ments by the grand jury. The Journal has
nothing to say againts the employment of
Colonel Hendricks; he will do his duty if he
accepts the engagement; but Mr. Sellers is not
consistent in his objections to Fishbacks.and
Robinson when he selects the Colonel But
then consistency is not virtue in or charac-
teristic of Mr.. Sellers's official conduct.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21
GOD SAVE THE 0UEENI

These words will ring throughout England
to-day, as never before since the day of Vic
toria's coronation. They will be on the lips
of every loyal Englishman. They will be
heard in every British colony. They will be
echoed by every lover of England and of her
noble Queen. Every friendly nation will say
"Amen" to them, and will wish that the clos
ing years of Victoria's life may be very peace
full and very happy. 1t is true that royalty,
as such, is distasteful to the American people,
With monarchical form of government
whether it be despotic, in Russia, or
limited, in England-the United States
has not the slightest sympathy But
for Queen Victoria as mother, as
wife, and as the head of the
British nation, America has only the pro-
out stain. She has set before her subjects
an example of wifehood and of motherhood
that is worthy of all praise. She has been
good Queen because she has been good wom-
England whose reign has reached fifty years.
Her reign has been an eminently successful
and happy one, and England does well to cele-
brate her ju bilee. Westminster Abbey, in
London, and ST. Patricks Cathedral, in Dub
lin, will be crowded with her loyal admirers,
and, although Ireland has just cause to find
fault with England's Tory government, it has
reason to find fault with England's Queen,
and hence Ireland will to-day vie with Eng
land in the celebration of the Queens jubilee.
Our minister at the court of St. James will
doubtless worthily represent the American
people on this suspicious and unprecedented
occasion, and it is to be sincerely hoped that
the whole celebration will be such as to be
worthy of the Queen of a great nation, and
worthy of the nation that has had for fifty
years so good Queen.
The jubilee for which such great prepare
tions have been made began yesterday, and
will eliminate to-day. If nothing occurs to
mar the occasion the ceremonies will be mem
orable among historic pageants. Especially
interesting is the fact that the browning GER
emonies of to-day will take place in Westmin-
ster Abbey, where, with regal pomp and
splendor, the young Queen was crowned just
fifty years ago. She came to the throne by
an extraordinary succession of events and her
whole career seems to have been under the
influence of lucky star. Her long and
benefcent reign covers of the brightest
periods in English history, and will fill
large place in the records of nineteenth GEN.
ury civilization. There is every reason why
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

THERE is Butler club in Boston, formed,
as the bylaws carefully state, for "social pur-
poses" It's members, however, are suspected
OF an intention to push the General as a can
didate for Governor, and so alarmed are Dem
ocratic politicians that when the club gave it's
first banquet, the other day, they besought
invited guests not to go. The best-laid plans
of Massachusetts, Democrats apt to gang
agley when General Butler mikes in" As
an exciting. as well as picturesque, element
in politics he has few equals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

THIS is the day the English celebrate.
There are few people in the civilized world
but will hope that the jubilee festivities may
pass off without mishap of any sort to mar the
enjoyment of the occasion. The Queen is
reported to be in fear of dynamite outrages,
and perhaps it is not strange that the great
faw in her reign, the oppression of Ireland,
should weigh upon her mind, and possibly
her conscience, and cause feeling of appre-
hension. 1t is unlikely, however, that any
thing Of the sort win be attempted AS one
upon women; we leave that for English
landlords and their agents" The Irish peo-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

DR.. E. d. STANDIFoRD, of Kentucky, is
an aspirant for the United States Senate
against Senator Beck who wants to be his
own successor. Senator Beck is man of
affairs, served several terms in the House of
Representatives before he was elected to the
Senate, and has had several years experience
in the Senate. DIR. Standiford is said to be
clever gentleman and is very wealthy. If he
possesses any special qualification for the
Senate besides his wealth, it has not been con-
epicuously advertised.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

THE scoundrel Colee, who was charged with
admitted his guilt and stated that he was
hired to fire the building by Rev. Mr.. Snapp,
yesterday acknowledged that he lied about
that gentleman. Mr.. Snapp has always denied
the other charges against him, and his enemies
have never been able to establish them by
proof. The Journal regrets having been the
means of doing an unintentional injustice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

THERE is nothing mean about Gen. Ben
Butler, and when he wants to make charita-
BILE remark he makes it. Speaking the other
day of the confederate flag business, he said
he did not blame the President. HE had
never" said the General, 'been in position
to learn whether such thing was right or
wrong, and the issuing of such an order was
more his misfortune than his fault" Taking
everything into consideration. it is not i'm
probable that Mr.. Cleveland would prefer to
be called knave rather than fool.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

THE New York Herald, which has under
taken to champion the President in the rebel
flag business, says: 1.-The reason the Presi-
dent gave for revoking his consent is known
to everybody; but the President, it can be
said, has not changed his sentiment parti-
Gle. If it were something that could be done
at will, he would renew his approval of the
suggestion tomorrow" Here is case where
a man should pray for deliverance from his
friends
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

THE Sentinel keeps repeating daily that
Adjutant- general Drum is and always has
been Republican. Such is not the fact.
Colonel Drum is not now and never was a Re-
publican. A special from Washington to the
Chicago Tribune, printed in another column,
shows him in another light. Colonel Drum
is and always was Democrat, or he never
would have been guilty of insulting loyal sol
diers of the Union.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

ple too, in spite of their wrongs and their
sufferings, undoubtedly cherish loyal affec-
ton for the Queen, and would, perhaps,
mourn more sincerely than many high-class
Englishmen were it brought to an end. They,
in common with all the world, will to-day
echo the wish that the ruler of half century
may have many more and prosperous years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

Two citizens of Cross Plains. Tenn. had a
misunderstanding, few days ago, when one of
them shot at the other five times. The latter
went to hunt up his gun, when the shooter tele-
graphed TO know if the matter could not be COM
promised. The reply was. yes, if he would stand
up and let the other fellow shoot at him five
times. There seems to be al element of judicial
fairness in rhis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

Americans should feel kindly toward the
Queen, for she has always evinced friendly
feeling for the United States, and during our
civil war her sympathies were strongly with
the government. So the most American of
Americans can unite in wishing the Queen
many happy returns of the day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

IN opposing co-education the trustees and fac
ulty of Wabash College are behind the times.
The experiment has been tried until it is no
longer an experiment.. and is system now in
satisfactory operation in nearly all Western
colleges. Only conservative and slow-going
Eastern schools with centuries of prejudice to
overcome, have failed to take this progressive
step, and Wabash should not wish to be classed
with these
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

CANON WHEREFORE is what Americans
would call rafting good talker. If he should
happen to take liking to this country he
could doubtless get good job.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

NATIONAL Opera Company singers who have
been trying all winter to get up TO high &. can't
reach il this summer. That is TO say. they can't
GO on the high owing to the necessity of
staying in New York and suing Thurbur, Locke
ct al for their back pay.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

In the case of Prince Frederick William it
looks now as if the one to decide "when doc
tors disagree" was to be the grim destroyer.
The wrangling physicians have talked so
much about the disease which affiicts him that
the public knows less about it than at first,
and this, as the old ladies would say, is bad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

THE clearinghouse returns for last week
showed an increase at Indianapolis of So per
cent. over the corresponding week of last
year. Only two other cities showed as large
an increase The average increase outside of
New York was % per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

YES, Grover, persons of your impulsive
temperament are apt to err, but hereafter you
should try and err on the right side. Such
errors as the rebel flag business make the peo-
pie very tired.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

WHAT has become Of the Council committee
that to consider and report upon the sub
ject of street sprinkline2 That matter has been
in incubation long enough for something to
corne of it
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

IT the President is really thinking of call
ing an extra session of Congress he should
consider the matter very carefully. and not
issue an order on mere 'toral represent att ons."
He might have to recall it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

DURING his stay in Washington last Sunday
Cardinal Gibbons was talking with some friends
about European ignorance of America. As illus
trating the subject, he told how his predecessor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

THESE are the longest days in the year, and
hot in proportion. Considering the heat, it is
not desirable to have them any longer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

Mr.. CLEVELAND says his rebel flag order
was made without due delberation. just SO;
made in haste to be repented at leisure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

REAL estate on Mount Desert island. Maine,
is valued by its owners at prices all the way
from $1,000 to 100000 per acre. Somebody
must have been talking natural gas in that
neighborhood.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

THE sun came down yesterday as il its ia US
were concentrated through burning glass
and the focus was perfect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

INDIANAPOLIS may have natural gas and a
cable road, but will never be an agreeable
place of residence until the streets are
sprinkled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

THE most popular veto message the Presi-
dent has written was the one vetoing himself
in the rebel flag business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21
Except Cleveland.

Boston Transcript.
Why not give the confederate flags to tho
holders of confederate bondsi They seer, to be
about the only confederate sympathizers left IN
the world
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

the late Archbishop Bayley. when Bishop of
Newark, had interested an italian family he was
visiting by account of what large territory
his diocese embraced and what beautiful city
Newark was; that it was half as large as Italy,
and Newark place of which Italy might be
proud. A map Of the United States was pro-
duced and Bishop BayleY was asked to locate his
great diocese To his modification. this Italian
atlas did not so much as honor Newark by name,
and to this day the family are in doubt whether
there is such place as New Jersey.